Human Experimentation - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Perspectives on human stem cell research.

30 Aug 2009 Human stem cell research draws not only scientists' but the public's attention. Human stem cell research is considered to be able to identify the mechanism of human development and change the paradigm of medical practices. However, there are heated ... Read more...

Research with vulnerable human beings.

18 Aug 2009 Some categories of human beings are particularly vulnerable vis-à-vis medical research. Vulnerability could be considered as the liability to be harmed, exploited, deceived, cheated, wronged, or otherwise unfairly treated, in roughly that descending ... Read more...

Compensation for incarcerated research participants: diverse state policies suggest a new research agenda.

18 Aug 2009 Research with prisoners is essential to understanding the incarceration experience and creating interventions to mediate its effects on individual and community health. Policies on research involving incarcerated participants can influence the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Human Experimentation - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Bioengineered bodies and the moral imagination. 17 Sep 2009
• Rethinking the responsiveness requirement for international research. 3 Sep 2009
• Perspectives on human stem cell research. 30 Aug 2009
• Research with vulnerable human beings. 18 Aug 2009
• Compensation for incarcerated research participants: diverse state policies suggest a new research agenda. 18 Aug 2009
• An ethics perspective on responsibilities of investigators, sponsors and research participants. 6 Aug 2009
• Ethical principles in health research and review process. 5 Aug 2009
• It is critical that the welfare of research participants who enable such research activities to be conducted is protected during and after the studies. Foreword. 28 Jul 2009
• Understanding bureaucracy in health science ethics: toward a better institutional review board. 14 Jul 2009
• Medical experiments on humans and the development of guidelines governing them: the central role of dermatology. 29 Jun 2009
• Men of peace and the search for the perfect pesticide: conscientious objectors, the Rockefeller Foundation, and typhus control research. 29 Jun 2009
• Ethical considerations for administering alcohol or alcohol cues to treatment-seeking alcoholics in a research setting: can the benefits to society outweigh the risks to the individual? A commentary in the context of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism -- Recommended Council Guidelines on Ethyl Alcohol Administration in Human Experimentation (2005). 8 Jun 2009
• When neonatal ICU infants participate in research: special protections for special subjects. 30 May 2009
• Action research in public schools: is it research? Should it be reviewed? 30 May 2009
• Research review boards dogged by criticism. 31 Mar 2009
• Declaration of Helsinki, 2008: implications for stakeholders in research. 30 Mar 2009
• Is it ethical to deny genetic research participants individualised results? 30 Mar 2009
• Surgical research in the UK. 30 Mar 2009
• IDF's anthrax vaccine trial "violated Helsinki Convention". 28 Mar 2009
• Review: important to prevent a return to abuses of the past. 24 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Human Experimentation'

Definition: The use of humans as investigational subjects.

Descriptor UI: D006805

Alternative terms: Human Experimentation; Experimentation, Human; Human Volunteers; Human Volunteer; Volunteer, Human; Volunteers, Human;

Related Mesh Headings: Helsinki Declaration; Bioethical Issues; Ethics, Research; Embryo Research; Fetal Research; Research Subjects;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; statistics & numerical data; standards;

Tree Number: E05.445;

History Note: 66

Technical Notes: IM for moral, legal, ethical, sociologic, religious aspect of experiments on humans; coordinate IM with aspect (IM); do not routinely add for research involving human disease, therapy or physiology